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Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?